Her 14-year-old daughter killed a man — to save her mother's life

Описание: In 1958, Lana Turner was a Hollywood legend. The Sweater Girl. The face of MGM. She was also dating a mob enforcer named Johnny Stompanato. He beat her. He threatened her with a gun. She could not leave.

On April 4, 1958, in their home in Beverly Hills, fourteen-year-old Cheryl Crane heard her mother screaming.

Cheryl took a kitchen knife. She walked to the bedroom door. She opened it. She pushed the knife into his stomach. He died on the carpet.

Lana fell to her knees.

Cheryl was arrested. The trial was the loudest of the decade. Lana took the stand and wept. The jury called it justifiable homicide. A daughter saving her mother.

Lana said one line to the press: "My daughter saved my life. I owe her every breath I take."

Lana lived 37 more years. Before she died in 1995, she asked to be buried holding Cheryl's photograph.

Was Cheryl just a child — or the only person who loved her mother enough to act?

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